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Mental Equipment, Good Taste : ; Aren't Necessary If You Chatter Fast By ELISE MORROW WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—If you have any curiosity as to the mental equipment and good taste required, among other things—principally dollars—to become a successful Washington hostess, with pictures in the papers, here is chapter and verse. i This is a report on the pearls of wisdom dropped by an enchanting creature who bags the very " best in Senators, ambassadors, and others of the species whenever she has a party here. For a change, she was at somebody else's party, rattling along gaily over her expectantlyclutched martini glass, while a sadeyed bystander muttered something, half under his breath, which sounded remarkably like, “She makes Perle Mesta sound like Voltairie.” Someone compiimented the hostess on a little item of rocks and crockery around her neck, worth a few negligible thousands, and she said, “Well, it is sweet, isn’t it? And I love it so much more than my other things because I don’t feel I have to have two detectives following me around when I wear it.” : Directly after this, someone else complimented her on her husband, and she burbled happily, “Yes, he is

Elise Morrow sweet, isn’t he? And just look at him in that old suit. . . . He likes |

to wear the same old thing all the time. in my closet ard say, ‘Shall I wear my Dior, my Molyneux, my

Lanvin or my Marcel Rochas—and what tie will you wear, my darling?’ ”

The hostess batted her eyes, made the irfelevant and somewhat incredible statement that the Atlantic Monthly is the only periodical she reads, fluttered on to tweak a Senator's nose, and declined another martini. “It makes mischief,” she said, ‘merrily. She was so right.

Canasta Expert

General Earl (Tooey) Spaatz, former head of the Air Force, has become so proficient at Canasta, a card game which has swept Washington like a plague, that he is losing sleep over it. General Spaatz was a Washington pioneer of the game, and is probably the best practitioner in the capital. The | trouble. is that people have taken to calling him in the middle of the night, not on any . TE vital matter of air strategy, but to ‘settles some fine point about a Canasta game. . Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the World War I President, is also dly enthusiastic about this refined form of gin rummy, this mah jongg of the second post-world war generation, so = much so that she has devised an arrangement to fit a special board in her car, so the cards won't slip and she can play while motoring. Mrs. Mesta, also one of the Canasta pioneers in Washington, took the game along to Luxembourg when she went there recently as U. 8. minister and ex-chief of the Washington party-throwers.

Rain Maker ¢

Incidentally, we've just run across this story about Mrs. Mesta’'s departure into the realm of international diplomacy. As she and her party were boarding ship for Europe, her press secretary, "Dorothy Williams, got a bouquet of ‘ ffowers from a friend bearing a card with this message: “Remember, Dorothy, you ecan’'t strike a woman.” One of the nobler statesmen of the United States Senate was cornered by a bore at a cocktail party here the other evening, and before long the bore became offensive. Finally, the Senator became angry. With a sweeping gesture reminiscent of an oration on #e Atlantic Pact, or perhaps on What to do about the atom bomb, he declared, *Young man, if you don’t stop annoying me, I'll find somebody who welll.” A minor ECA ofScial, just back from Italy, reports on how the drought situation over there wag solved, recently. “First there were prayers for rain,” he said, “but they didn’t work. Then the Communists wrote a manifestation against the drought. That didn't work ‘either. Finally, a State Department man came up with the solution. “‘The only thing to do,’ he said, ‘is to schedule a series of garden parties.’ Sure enough, it started to rain the day of the first party and didn’t let up for a week.”

Vodka Contest Set

A social advantage enjoyed by Latin-American diplomats in Washington is the fact they have more excuses for giving parties. For example, every time there is an unsuccessful at-

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American government, the event is likely to be signalized in Washington with appropriate elbow bending. Just the other day, for instance, the Bolivian ambassador and Senora -de Martinez Vargas were “at home” and it was “in celebration of the government’s recent victory: over the Fascists.” Of course, if a government is overthrown, the party will’have to wait until the new government’s ambassador arrives. This trend has also become apparent among the Iron Curtain embassies. Every so often, there is a drinking, attended by almost nobody you ever | heard of, given by the Peoples’ |~ ‘Repubke or whatever country feels like it, “to celebrate the anniversary of the liberation of the Peoples’ Republic from the yoke of the oppressers,” or words to that effect. The big moment in this social set, however, is still something over a month away, for the annual vodka contest at the Soviet Embassy, in celebration of the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, will be held early in mber. <

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By AGNES H. OSTROM “WHEN YOU explain what the Community Fund does, most people can be reached.” That bit of philosophy has carried Mrs. H. P. Willwerth successfully through

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ties of hundreds of women in the 30th annual drive. The 14 intensive “Give Enough” soliciting days begin Oct. 10. Securing team captains, helping them round up volunteers, making certain they have adequate materials, dealing with their campaign problems, answering countless telephone calls—it’s all part of her job. Plus the clean-up work of contacting the prospective giver who isn't sold yet.

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She found her unsuspecting victim dusting. “That was the last of the dusting,” reminisces Mrs. Willwerth. By consenting to head the westside residential division, she joined forces with a growing corps of Indianapolis men and women, who, during the

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: gatherings add to the workers’ zeal to do a better job, as well as acquaint them ‘with people from every section of the town. -

Mrs, Willwerth feels particularly close to the fund's speakers’ bureau. As incoming Inters national Travel Study Clubs Federation president in 1938, she set tp such a bureau in that group. The fund adopted the idea, one of the important cogs in ‘the machinery since. How do you get so many workers? She explains school principals and PTA groups have helped eagerly. They have supplied many interested workers through the years. Admittedly this youthful grandmother “likes to stir up things.” A review of some of her activities bears its own witness. She was founder-president of the Municipal Gardens Women's Department Club, Florence Nightingale and Indianapolis Grandmothers Clubs; founder, Emerson Grove Garden Club; is secretary of the Southwest Social Center Club, an active Republican and member of the Indiana Historical Society and Indianapolis Parliamentary Club. For 18 years she's played Mrs. Santa Claus for students in School 44 and has even observed a golden wedding anniversary. But from Oct. 10 to 24 her lively step will hasten to- a West Side home to tell the occupants. ‘‘what the Community Fund does.”

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Shirley Jean VanCleave and Howard E. Beall were married at 7:30 o'clock last night in the Irvington Methodist Church. The Rev. C. M. Johnson officiated. The parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Clifford VanCleave, 6115 E. 16th St., and Mrs. Gerald Beall, 4641 Brookville Miss Patricia Ashley was the maid of honor and Miss Ruth Ann VanCleave, sister of the bride,

bridegroom, were the bridesmaids. |themums, Ruth-Hope Marks was the flower-| The. best man was Edward girl. Sor ehsen and the ushers were ane Wears White Safin sgegard, Robert Sotenssn The sbridal attendants wore

Rol David and Donald A gown of white satin made blue, yellow, green and pink taf-|with a fitted bodice, full skirt and feta frocks with matching mitts chapel train was worn by the

Poetry Clubs to pois EE oa Convene Saturday

The ninth annual convention of| the Indiana State Federation of| Poetry Clubs will be held Satur-| day. The business session will be!

Ba, at 1:30 p. m. in the World War N T ll Memorial. Miss June Winona, urse to e Snyder, retiring president, will be| . : in charge. Officers will be elected. [= Dr. Edwin Barlow Evans will be| Xxperiences guest speaker at the 8 p. m. Pro-| nrg . 0. McCormick Jr. will

gram in the Hotel Lincoln. He will goo 0c her experiences as an

be introduced by Miss Florence| Army flight nurse at a meeting

Marie Taylor. An honorary mem-o¢ the Alpha Lambda Latreian bership will be given Dr. Evans.Club. The meeting will be TuesWalter Newton Reed will preside. day in the home of Mrs. Robert A musical program will be pre-/Girk, Ralston Drive. Mrs. Robert sented by Mr. and Mrs. Reed, Urban will assist.

vocalists, accompanied by Mrs.| Willard Beck, and Miss Lu Ellen yi wimeors Of ED Dearinger, dancef, accompanied gent: Mrs. Phillip Hahmann, vice {by Mrs. Douglas Horine. John presigent; Mrs. Albert MendenCain Golden will talk on “The/hall and Mrs. B. Allan Sutton, Matrix of Poetic Inspiration.” recording and corresponding secETT retaries; Mrs. Quentin D. Wert,

white Bible. . 3 The couple is on a trip west. They will make their home with the bridegroom’s mother.

1 treasurer. PTA Unit to Meet Mrs: Kenneth Peterman, parliae The PTA of Manual Highimentarian; Mrs. Girk, historian,

School will have a meeting atjand Mrs. Merlin King and Mrs. 745 p. m. Wednesday: in the Wallace DeHart, 7th District deleschool library. (gates.

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and Miss Carol Beall, sister of the/and caps. They carried chysan-

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